I have a new version of perl on my server and it has DBI 1.607 abd DBD:ORACLE 1.21. I am trying to connect to an older version of Oracle which is no longer supported in DBD:Oracle 1.21. I would like to go to version 1.17...how can i do this on a windows machine?

That was the route i originally tried to take. I installed ActivePerl as it was an attractive package to get started. When i launch ppm and go to DBD-Oracle the option to remove is greyed out. is there something else i need to do to be able to remove a package?

this gets the most recent version of DBD:Oracle when i need to install an old version. I have the old version in a .tar.gz file but not sure the best way to install it. i can extract all the files but dont know the installation steps. the readme doesnt help much either.